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Topic: windowmaker installed, won't run

dbkarnes
Junior Member
Member # 53

posted August 27, 2001 12:35 PM

I downloaded the WindowMaker package from this site, installed the package, ran wmaker.inst according to directions ...now, when I launch XDarwin, I get the background screen (after a while), but then XDarwin crashes without showing any windows or anything. I'm running XDarwin 1.0, from the XFree86 project.

Any help appreciated.

danl

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Daniel Karnes
GIScience/Visualization Specialist
Department of Geography
Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH 03755

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apex
Administrator
Member # 1

posted August 27, 2001 10:58 PM

try starting X from the terminal to get some output so you can find the problem.

code:

startx -- -quartx

Make sure you have

code:

exec /path/to/wmaker

in ~/.xinitrc.

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dbkarnes
Junior Member
Member # 53

posted August 28, 2001 11:26 AM

That worked. The terminal revealed that the dylib library was not found. I got the dlcompat package from osxgnu.org, installed it and now everything is fine. Thanks.

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